On a recent visit to Bethpage State Park, I went with Kathy Wegman, a retired environmental horticulturist, as she checked bluebird and tree swallow nest boxes. At the first bluebird nest box, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of the Trout River Environmental Committee took this photo of tree swallow eggs inside one of the new banding boxes.

The eastern bluebird has been the featured subject at least two dozen times over the 26-plus years Focus On Nature has been running on these pages. It’s a subject guaranteed to brings notes and calls.

SAUKVILLE – Prairies are rich wildlife habitats. They are so bountiful, in fact, sometimes they even host species that evolved to breed elsewhere. For proof we need only look at two restored ...

A bird in the box is worth two in the bush, Bronx high school students learned this spring. Teenagers from Arturo A. Schomburg Satellite Academy in Longwood worked with Rocking the Boat, a local ...

A Lynn Township, Lehigh County woman writes: “Every spring when I clean out the bluebird boxes something other than bluebirds move in. I’ve had to chase off house sparrows but tree sparrows (I believe ...

At a crowded Mendenhall Valley Public Library, people gathered for a Wildlife Wednesday hosted by the Southeast chapter of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance to hear naturalist Brenda Wright of the Juneau ...

Placement, construction, shape and material are essential nest considerations. Each species meets its own needs with its own style, developed over eons. Many bird species employ feathers in their ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A minute’s walk up the East Gallatin Recreation Area Trail from Glen Lake Rotary Park, tree ...

Tree swallows in central P.E.I. have some new homes, thanks to five watershed groups in the area. The groups have put up dozens of nesting boxes for the insect-eating birds as part of a standardized ...